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Thora Petursdottir serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo. Her academic career spans institutions including the University of Iceland, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and Stanford University. She currently holds editorial leadership as Editor-in-Chief of NAR Norwegian Archaeological Review and serves on Iceland's Science and Technology Council.
Her research focuses on the intersection of contemporary archaeology, cultural heritage studies, and archaeological theory within the Anthropocene era. Specializing in Arctic and northern contexts (particularly Iceland, northern Norway, and Russia), she investigates material culture's afterlives, nature-culture boundaries, and archaeology's role in environmental crises. Her work emphasizes diverse communication methods to convey archaeological knowledge.
Petursdottir's publications reveal consistent engagement with Anthropocene materialities, ruins theory, and unruly heritage. Her recent work examines plastic archaeology, drift matter, and climate change heritage, demonstrating interdisciplinary reach across environmental humanities and material culture studies.
- Universitetsforlaget's textbook award (2019)
She advises on major research projects including Unruly Heritage: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene and Naturminner: En arkeologi av naturarv i nord. Her editorial work with NAR Norwegian Archaeological Review and leadership in international networks like CHAT demonstrate significant scholarly influence. Current projects explore Arctic materialities, heritage ecologies, and the philosophical dimensions of contemporary ruins.
Petursdottir directs the research group Materialiteter – i fortiden og samtiden (Materialities – in the past and present) and contributes to UiO's HEI: Kulturarv initiative, focusing on collaborative heritage research across temporal and geographical boundaries.
